Your company is evaluating a new factory that will cost $14 million to build. Your target debt-equity ratio is 1. The flotation cost for new equity is 7% and the flotation cost for new debt is 4%. The company is planning to use retained earnings for 50% of the equity financing. What are the weighted average flotation costs as a fraction of the amount invested? What are the flotation costs (in $ million )?
Your company is evaluating a new factory that will cost $14 million to build. Your target debt-equity ratio is 1. The flotation cost for new equity is 7% and the flotation cost for new debt is 4%. The company is planning to use retained earnings for 50% of the equity financing. What are the weighted average flotation costs as a fraction of the amount invested? What are the flotation costs (in $ million )?
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![Your company is evaluating a new factory that will cost $14 million to build. Your target debt-equity
ratio is 1. The flotation cost for new equity is 7% and the flotation cost for new debt is 4%. The
company is planning to use retained earnings for 50% of the equity financing. What are the weighted
average flotation costs as a fraction of the amount invested? What are the flotation costs (in $ million
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Transcribed Image Text:Your company is evaluating a new factory that will cost $14 million to build. Your target debt-equity
ratio is 1. The flotation cost for new equity is 7% and the flotation cost for new debt is 4%. The
company is planning to use retained earnings for 50% of the equity financing. What are the weighted
average flotation costs as a fraction of the amount invested? What are the flotation costs (in $ million
)?
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